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Marine delegates from across the globe descended on St George’s today to attend the 25th annual Red Ensign Group conference. The opening ceremony took place at the Town Hall and was attended by Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell, his permanent secre...

A Bermuda shipping and storage firm is celebrating 60 years in business. Bermuda Forwarders — founded as a two-strong customs clearance operation in 1955 — now has 50 full-time employees and has expanded into data storage, moving services and transpo...

A new shipping business has passed a milestone with its 1,000th customer. Island Bargains of Bermuda will tonight celebrate hitting four figures by sponsoring the first of the summer Harbour Nights in Hamilton. The service was the brainchild of busin...

Shipping to Bermuda can be confusing even without considering international shipping conventions. I hope to provide some clarity in this piece on Bills of Lading and General Average as they relate to maritime shipping law. Please note that I am not...

Shawn Crockwell, the Minister of Tourism Development and Transport, commemorated cruise ship MV Oriana’s inaugural visit to Bermuda with a traditional maritime plaque exchange. The exchange was held on board between Mr Crockwell and ship captain Marc...

Piracy is widespread, and a threat to our well-ordered ordered lives, those in the shipping industry say. It is also an issue that at least one Bermuda resident, Jens Alers, knows a lot about as the company for which he is managing director, Bernhard...

Bermuda’s ship registry has just logged its biggest single transaction of 14 ships. The ships are owned by Team Tankers International, the new holding company for Eitzen Chemical shipping group, which last year decided to domicile in Bermuda and rebr...

Norway-listed chemical shipper Eitzen Chemical has urged its shareholders to accept an exchange offer that will see the company move to Bermuda. Eitzen established Team Tankers International (TTI) as a vehicle enabling its move to the Island. “This i...

Shares of three major oil tanker companies based in Bermuda have rocketed as oil prices plummet. In the past three months Frontline has seen its share price boosted 159 per cent, while shares in Teekay Tankers are up 78 per cent, and shares in Nordic...

Local shipping companies are feeling the benefit of plunging global oil prices, and the savings are being passed along to customers as the cost of bringing goods and materials to the Island falls. Oil prices have dropped around 50 per cent since last...

A broken-down crane contributed to a six-month loss for Polaris holding company for Stevedoring Services — despite a small increase in cargo volume. The firm posted a loss of $281,968 for the period between March and the end of September last year, e...

The last cruise ship of the season has come and gone pulling the curtain down on 2014 cruise schedule. The Ocean Princess came alongside in the capital yesterday morning after arriving from Funchal in Madeira. The luxury liner and her 700 passengers ...